Food & Drink in North Wales

Some highlights of the region's best local produce.

Bodnant Welsh Food Centre

This £6.5 million creation is an uber farm shop that showcases cheese, dairy products and artisan bread in beautifully converted farm buildings. Dining options include the seasonally minded Hayloft restaurant and a tea room that serves Welsh rarebit with Clogwyn Gold beer and impressive views over the river. Also a cookery school & honey from the Welsh National Beekeeping Centre.

Cadwalader's Ice Cream

From selling vanilla ice cream in North Wales back in 1927, Cadwalader's have expanded throughout Wales and England with an endless stream of changing flavours, unique chilled drinks and velvety hot chocolates. Six ice cream cafes throughout North Wales.

Hawarden Farm Shop

Hawarden Estate Farm Shop offers a delicious food experience, with a host of food and flavours chosen for you with care and passion. The ethos of the Farm Shop is 'real food sourced with passion'. As well as fruit and vegetables grown on the farm the shop also sells produce from the Estate's tenant farmers. Winners of several Wales True Taste awards including Retailer of the Year.

Halen Môn Sea Salt

Organic white flakes of salt extracted from pure charcoal-filtered seawater drawn from the Menai Strait around Anglesey. Sold in Marks & Spencer, Waitrose and Harvey Nichols along with 100 of the nation’s best delicatessens. Shop open 10am to 4pm Monday to Friday.

Purple Moose Brewery, Porthmadog

The Purple Moose Brewery is a '10-Barrel' micro-brewery based in the historic harbour town of Porthmadog, North Wales. Brewery Tours available, and their shop sells a selection of their award winning beers.

Rhug Estate Farm Shop, Denbighshire

Impressive farm shop opened 2011 in a purpose built oak and cedar building that offers high quality local, Welsh and organic products. Deli counter with cheese, home made pies and cured meats. Butcher's counter selling organically produced meats. Takeaway with home produced organic burgers and bacon cooked on charcoal grills to give flavour. "The Bison Grill" produces all its meals from scratch using own award winning meat headed up by Michelin Star trained Executive Chef Chris Harrod.

Rosie's Draught Cider

Apple farm and producers of 4 types of cider and, when they can get the pears, some perry. Shop with premises licence. Cider is sold to many beer and cider festivals throughout the UK and is available in a number of local pubs, delis and shops.

Snowdon Honey Farm & Winery

Nestled at the foot of Snowdon, this store started with bee keeping as a hobby. From this small beginning the business has grown but retains the warmth and hospitality of a small family run business. Locally produced honey, wine, biscuits, jewellery, hampers, preserves.